Emmanuel Church in the City of Boston

Believing is not a condition of beloving or belonging here.

Join us for Episcopal worship Sundays at 10:00am.

1896

Posted on February 27, 2013 by InTheEarlyDays

Leighton Parks rejected a call from a Brooklyn parish. The Vestry quickly began work on a larger church, which would add forty pews.
The Ascension Chapter (#1407) of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew was organized by the Rev. Edward Atkinson.
Harriet Dexter Lawrence Hemenway, 1890, by John Singer Sargent. Credit: WikiCommons

Harriet Lawrence Hemenway and her cousin Minna B. Hall founded the Mass. Audubon Society. For some time they had fought against the slaughter of egrets and other birds for their plumes by organizing women to stop wearing feathered hats.

1878

Posted on February 26, 2013 by InTheEarlyDays

The Rev. Dr. Leighton Parks became our third rector.

He requested free seats at afternoon services, which required releases of pew holders’ rights. For biographical information on Dr. Parks please see the chapter on him in Emmanuel Church, 1860-1960: The First Hundred Years.